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theusarticles · 2 years

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After brands dump Kanye West, many people ask: What took so long? | CNN Business

New York CNN Business — Earlier this week Adidas ended its partnership with rapper and fashion designer Ye (who previously went by Kanye West). Its decision came around the same time that a flurry of other companies also cut ties with the artist — but weeks after Ye began making offensive remarks. Many wondered: What took Adidas and others so long? After all, Ye’s behavior had been troubling…

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slaveryabolitionday · 6 months

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Knowledge, History and Power: In conversation.

Objectives:

To increase awareness of the transformational and liberating power of accurate knowledge to end racism and racial discrimination.

To highlight some of the challenges in sharing accurate knowledge about the difficult history of enslavement and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

To examine some of best practices in sharing accurate knowledge about enslavement, racism and racial discrimination through media and journalism.

To engender and mobilize greater support for racial justice in public education.

To consider the role of power in addressing white supremacy and systemic racism.

To understand how those whose ancestors profited from the trade enslaved in Africans can make amends and contribute to reconciliation.

To inspire a movement of shared humanity while empowering the audience

to fight for the rights of and justice for the global African diaspora.

#Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery #United Nations Department of Global Communications #enslavement #racism and racial discrimination #history of enslavement

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reportwire · 1 year

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Hundreds of newspapers drop 'Dilbert' comic strip after racist tirade from creator Scott Adams | CNN Business

New York CNN — Newspapers across the country dropped the “Dilbert” comic strip over the weekend after the creator of the satirical cartoon went on a racist tirade, calling Black Americans a “hate group” and suggesting that White people should “get the hell away” from them. The USA Today Network, which operates hundreds of newspapers, said it had pulled the plug on the long-running comic…

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#brand safety-nsf discrimination #brand safety-nsf sensitive #Business #business and industry sectors #discrimination #economy and trade #iab-business and finance #iab-industries #iab-media industry #iab-publishing industry #media industry #Newspapers #publishing industry #racism and racial discrimination #societal issues #society

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usaitbari · 1 year

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Patrice Evra speaks out on racist abuse and how to combat it | CNN

Patrice Evra speaks out on racist abuse and how to combat it Former French international Patrice Evra says that “big institutions” will only tackle racism and discrimination when their bottom lines are impacted. Speaking to CNN Sport, Evra first opened up about his experiences of abuse on the field when he started off his career as youngster in Italy. 04:00 – Source: CNN Source link

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#continents and regions #discrimination #europe #italy #patrice evra #racism and racial discrimination #societal issues #society #southern europe #sports figures

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alwaysbewoke · 2 months

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On March 16, 1991 Latasha Harlin’s short life came to a violent end in the midst of racial tensions in LA, and became a major spark for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots. By the late 1980s, racial tensions were high in South Los Angeles. After the change in national immigration laws in 1965 a large number of Korean immigrants arrived in Los Angeles and by 1968 the first Korean-owned market opened in South Central LA. Longtime African American residents in the area at first welcomed the Koreans but eventually grew angry with them because they refused to hire black employees and often treated their customers poorly. By 1990, 65% of South Central businesses were Korean-owned and a 1992 survey of these storeowners revealed considerable racial prejudice against black customers and black people in general. Koreans in response argued that their attitudes evolved from high crime rates in the area and shop owner fears of shootings and burglaries. Latasha Harlins became a victim of these racial tensions on the morning of Saturday, March 16, 1991. She entered a store owned by a Korean family, to purchase a bottle of orange juice. As she approached the counter, Soon Ja Du, accused her of stealing after seeing her place the bottle in her backpack, despite her holding the $2 payment approaching the counter to pay. Du grabbed the bag and the two women had a violent scuffle. Harlins threw the juice bottle back on the counter and turned to leave the store when Du pulled a .38-caliber handgun and shot 15-year-old Harlins in the back of the head. Du was arrested and her trial was held on November 15, 1991. Security-camera footage which showed Harlins’ attempt to pay for the juice and the subsequent scuffle between the two women convinced a jury to find Du guilty of voluntary manslaughter. The Judge, Joyce Karlin, rejected the jury’s recommendation and instead sentenced Du to five years probation, 400 hours of community service, and a $500 fine.

One of the many reasons black people don't f*** with Asians like that and we should collectively drive them out of our neighborhoods

#latasha harlins #los angeles riots #racial tensions #korean immigrants #south los angeles #soon ja du #racial prejudice #voluntary manslaughter #racial discrimination #asian anti blackness #asian racism

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kindgreenape · 10 months

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i think kim is just as complex of a character as harry, but i think a good amount of players (not all, but a chunk) choose to unflinchingly characterize him as “the Good Cop” and leave it at that.

#kim was a child of the revolution. he has faced racial discrimination all his life #even in a position of authority he still encounters overt racism while on the clock #but he has also killed. it's implied that the majority of his kill count comes from his time working with juveniles #he defends a police force that is corrupt and does jackshit- a tool of the coalition #the same coalition that was likely responsible for the death of both his parents #he used to be a moralist and claims to be apolitical #and yet there are times where he takes what are decidedly un-moralist left-wing stances #there is just so much there.

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profeminist · 9 months

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Bessie Stringfield the "Motorcycle Queen Of Miami"

"At the age of 16 Stringfield taught herself to ride her first motorcycle, a 1928 Indian Scout. In 1930, at the age of 19, she commenced traveling across the United States. She made seven more long-distance trips in the US, and eventually rode through the 48 lower states, Europe, Brazil and Haiti. During this time, she earned money from performing motorcycle stunts in carnival shows. Due to her skin color, Stringfield was often denied accommodation while traveling, so she would sleep on her motorcycle at filling stations. Due to her sex, she was refused prizes in flat track races she entered.

In the 1950s Stringfield moved to Miami, Florida, where at first she was told "n*gger women are not allowed to ride motorcycles" by the local police. After repeatedly being pulled over and harassed by officers, she visited the police captain. They went to a nearby park to prove her riding abilities. She gained the captain's approval to ride and did not have any more trouble with the police."

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Stringfield

#bessie stringfield #black women #bikers #biker women #u.s. history #feminism #feminist #racism #sexism #racial discrimination #gender discrimination #black women's history

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odinsblog · 6 months

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Racial covenants can be found in the property records of every American community. These restrictive clauses were inserted into property deeds to prevent people who were not White from buying or occupying land.

Racial covenants served as legally-enforceable contracts. They stipulated that the property had to remain in the hands of White people and they ran with the land, which meant that it could be enforced in perpetuity. Anyone who dared to challenge this ban risked forfeiting their claim to the property.

A survey of the 30,000 covenants unearthed in Hennepin and Ramsey Counties illuminates the wide variety of people targeted. An early Minneapolis restriction proclaimed that the "premises shall not at any time be conveyed, mortgaged or leased to any person or persons of Chinese, Japanese, Moorish, Turkish, Negro, Mongolian or African blood or descent." Before 1919, Jews were often included in this laundry list of “objectionable” people.

This language shifted with time. This eugenics-inspired list gave way to simpler declarations that the property could only be “be occupied exclusively by person or persons. . .of the Caucasian Race.” While many different kinds of people were targeted by racial covenants, every restriction identified by Mapping Prejudice bars Black people, as they were perceived by White Minnesotans to be particularly likely to decrease property values.

Real estate developers used racial covenants to sell houses, promising home buyers that covenants would protect their investment.

These same developers worked with park commissioners to make land adjacent to racially-restricted neighborhoods into public green space. These parks, they argued, would enhance the value of the property in these new neighborhoods. These rising values would also benefit municipal governments by swelling local tax coffers.

White homeowners also profited from racial covenants. A team of University of Minnesota researchers has demonstrated that Minneapolis houses that had covenants are worth 14 percent more than identical houses that never had covenants. This “bonus” value persists today, more than 50 years after the Fair Housing Act made these racial restrictions illegal.

The families who owned houses with covenants were able to pass that value on to the next generation. This intergenerational transfer of assets continues to drive the racial wealth gap in the United States today.

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#politics #racism #racial covenants #redlining #housing discrimination #structural racism #anti blackness #housing #realestate #national association of realtors #racial wealth gap #generational wealth

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 2 months

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"Not sure who needs to hear this, but presupposition of character based solely on skin color is the definition of racism. You can repackage it however you want, still racism." -- Joseph Crain

#Joseph Crain #racism #discrimination #racial discrimination #religion is a mental illness

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intersectionalpraxis · 2 months

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ya'll will not believe what happened...

so remember when i posted about the time that when i went to walmart to get groceries a few weeks ago (it's one of the only affordable places for me -i shop as local as i can) -and i witnessed a security guard racially profile an older Black woman. i was stopped because the guard wanted to 'check my receipt' to 'prove' that she didn't pull this lady aside because she's racist, and during the entire interaction, i eventually left with this woman because that guard is terrible.

and i can believe it, but the fact that i saw it a second time -SHE DID IT AGAIN.

i was hesitant to go to this location because i only needed to pick up some essentials that day, but she was targeting a young Black woman and demanding she see her receipt too... when i spoke with her about it -it was literally the EXACT same thing -the young woman told me she was embarrassing her/humiliating her out of nowhere -the guard then pulled over a white lady to check her receipt and i watched in shock. the woman left after i told her she's done this before and it's illegal to check someone's bag/ask for their receipt unless you physically see someone stealing, and even then wtf are you doing for a billion dollar corporation. i'm still stunned.

the fucking audacity.

#feminist #social justice #current events #walmart #racial profiling #racism #antiblackness #anti black racism #anti blackness #discrimination

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sparksinthenight · 6 months

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Why we need Land Back

We should talk about current issues Indigenous people face.

In Canada at least there are many problems still happening.

Indigenous children are being ripped away from their loving families and put into foster care simply because the families are poor or the parents struggle with mental illness or something like that.

Women are being forcibly sterilized against their will.

Girls, women, and 2 spirit people are being kidnapped and sold into sex slavery and are also getting murdered and raped and their bodies are being thrown into the landfills.

The land that Indigenous communities need for their cultures and livelihoods is being destroyed by resource extraction companies that cut through the landscape and leave open wounds, that pollute the land, air, and water, and destroy the biodiversity and health of the ecosystems.

There is police brutality against Indigenous people, and people are killed by the police every day. There are hate crimes against Indigenous people.

Social services on reserves, including education, healthcare, utilities, housing, etc, are horrifically underfunded, and are funded much less well than the same social services off of reserves.

There’s discrimination in employment, in healthcare, in pretty much everything. And Indigenous people are kept in poverty and homelessness by the discriminatory society.

We need Land Back.

Land Back will allow Indigenous people to stop their land from being destroyed. Their cultures and livelihoods and mental health and spiritual health and well-being is so deeply tied to the land/nature. And actually, having them be able to effectively protect the land helps all of us because all humans are dependant upon the land even if we don’t realize it.

It will also allow Indigenous communities to force the government to stop discriminating against them by giving them worse social services. It will allow them to force the government to give them the same social services everyone else gets.

It will also allow them to force the government to stop taking their children. All children deserve to be with the families who love them and they should not be ripped away from their families, because this causes deep and devastating lifelong trauma.

It would allow Indigenous communities to stop rapists and traffickers and murderers from entering their communities. It will allow them to force rapists and traffickers and murderers out of their communities. And it will allow them to make sure every case of people getting raped or kidnapped or trafficked or killed is properly investigated and the victims are saved and the perpetrators get justice. Same with other hate crimes.

It will allow Indigenous people to have the power necessary to push back on police brutality and build better models of law enforcement, including community-ventured models.

Indigenous communities will also likely get a flow of money that they can use to lift their people out of poverty. They’ll have the power to stop healthcare discrimination and forcible sterilization. And they’ll have the power to force us to give justice to unethical healthcare professionals and to force systemic change in the healthcare system so that medical mistreatment doesn’t happen.

Indigenous people would also have the opportunity to do more outreach to settler communities and teach them about Indigenous culture and values and stuff, so that people learn to be less racist and discriminatory.

Land Back will help pretty much every marginalized community because stopping racism and discrimination for one race usually leads to there being decreased racism and discrimination for other races too.

Ultimately Land Back is about giving Indigenous people and communities the power to keep themselves and each other safe in a society that is actively against them. It is also about keeping the ecosystems that we all rely upon safe, and about stopping discrimination and racism.

Giving Indigenous people power to protect themselves and their communities isn’t going to prevent any other community from protecting themselves. It will create more equality and social justice for everyone in Canada.

I support Land Back. I’m a settler girl and I support Land Back, and you should too.

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reportwire · 2 years

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Kyrie Irving returns to the Brooklyn Nets after serving 8-game suspension | CNN

CNN — Kyrie Irving’s eight-game suspension ended Sunday as the star point guard suited up for the Brooklyn Nets game against the Memphis Grizzlies. Irving hadn’t played for the Nets since November 1. The Nets suspended Irving November 3 after he tweeted a link to a documentary containing antisemitic messages, followed by an initial refusal to issue an apology. Irving has since issued…

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#Anti-Semitism #Basketball #brooklyn nets #discrimination #kyrie irving #NBA #nba atlantic division #NBA Eastern Conference #racism and racial discrimination #societal issues #society #sports and recreation #sports figures #sports organizations and teams

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usaitbari · 1 year

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NASCAR champion Kyle Larson experiences the lowest-lows and the highest-highs | CNN

NASCAR champion Kyle Larson experiences the lowest-lows and the highest-highs Kyle Larson sits down with Coy Wire and reflects on his past 18 months, which saw him suspended from NASCAR after using a racial slur during a livestream. Larson was reinstated for 2021 and had one of the best seasons in NASCAR history, culminating in his first ever championship. 04:28 – Source: CNN Source link

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alwaysbewoke · 2 months

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#racism #discrimination #racial inequality #social justice #civil rights #systemic racism #racial bias #racial prejudice #racial discrimination #racial justice #twitter #stupid people

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bloodyscott · 4 months

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its so funny how even by other black elders, afros are seen as this unmanageable menace that need to be combed, but many of them have not taken the time to learn how to do afros, and many black people who have self hatred are less likely to take care of their hair well due to having to stick to the “virtue” of appealing to white people

and this os especially apparent in how people have literally gotten punished at school or work for wearing hairstyles commonly worn by black people, and how certain workplaces have policies against it. not to mention how nonblack people seem to almost always be touching black hair without consent, treating it as “exotic”, combined with a general hatred of curlier hair, including afros, especially with 4c hair

#texturism #antiblackness #racism #racial discrimination

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feckcops · 1 year

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Britain is the most socially liberal it’s ever been. Could somebody let our politicians know?

“While social conservatism appears to be under threat in many institutions, in politics it seems more influential than ever. On complex issues such as crime, immigration, patriotism and the value of work, family and the monarchy, Labour and the Tories compete to offer the most traditionalist stances and policies, presented in a ritualised language calculated to appeal to socially conservative voters: ‘crackdowns’, ‘security’, ‘stability’, ‘respect’ …

“Many voters know that the lives of politicians often don’t match their stern public stances. As prime minister, Boris Johnson presided over a benefits system designed by his party to punish poor people for having more than two children, while being typically evasive about his own fathering of more than half a dozen. For Tory politicians especially, as for the tabloid moralisers who urge them on, ‘traditional values’ tend to be something you advocate for everyone else, while living less strictly yourself.

“The privileged position of social conservatives in our press and politics also artificially prolongs the life of reactionary attitudes, which are often based more on myths, fear and prejudice than everyday realities. In focus groups held by the main parties in red wall constituencies, voters regularly express a deep hostility to immigrants – while living in places where for decades the population problem has been people leaving rather than arriving.

“Important Labour figures argue that ‘respecting’ such views is simply good politics, given the electoral system, which always hugely empowers swing voters, who tend not to have the most progressive values. But even if Labour wins office – an outcome that feels less certain again after weeks of inconclusive squabbles with the Tories about who is toughest on crime – siding with illiberal Britain may be storing up trouble. If being tough on crime was an effective approach, we would have one of Europe’s lowest crime rates, rather than just one of its highest prison populations.”

#liberals #conservatives #social liberalism #social conservatism #feminism #lgbt rights #racial equality #equality #social justice #sexism #homophobia #transphobia #racism #discrimination #labour #labour party #tory party #tories #uk

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